Melancholy Christmas and a W ii New Year

I have had the most blah Christmas this year. Not because of any thing that happened, just me. I just was not in it this year. Maybe it was the lack of sleep, maybe the demands of a new baby. I just don't know. My countdown plans died along the way, all 4 of them. Because one cannot have too many advent/countdown things to do, right? So if you cannot have to many, I just decided to blow the whole shindig and not do any of them with any consistency. Yay, me.
This was Levi's first Christmas and true to form, I did not manage to take more than 3 pictures. Seriously, where was I? (I can tell you where I was, nursing him) The kids even opened Christmas from us a day late.
Now it's New Years Eve and Levi is having a rough go of it. He has spent the last 2 days projectile vomiting and today he will not have us laying him down. Nice. So we end up at Cici's pizza watching the first half of the Chick-fil-a Bowl. We invite ourselves to my folks to watch the rest of the game, then come home to play the w ii. I did purchase some sparkling cider for our toast (which the kids did not like). We rang in the new year and headed straight for bed.
I think I am glad 2011 is over. Levi's gestation and birth was a down and up time. I had a rough pregnancy (bummer) but Levi is here (YAY). I gained from pregnancy (bummer, but only because I had started to workout and get in shape). I ended the pregnancy lower than I started (Thank you Lord!). I couldn't be the example my kids needed (pregnancy limitations), so they had a full run of rebellion this year. No co-op or play group for the kids = More on the rebellion pile.
So with that I am doing some planning and hope to have some goals for our family. Ones we can all meet reasonably. I will let you know those in a few days, but just a few I know will be there.
  • Exercise. I will do some form of exercise 3 times a week and hopefully more.
  • Schedule. We will have a new schedule for the day. One that is enforced. No more lollygagging around all day. No more 2hr meals. No more 3+hrs on 30 mins worth of chores. I will have more time to enforce as the weeks go on.
  • Consistency. See above.
Beware, there may be moaning and gnashing of teeth here at the SmoreSpohrs Camp. Pray with me that I can be reasonable, the kids can step up as Christ tells them to obey, and that they will see rewards for doing a job well.
What are your New Year changes, if any?